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All the ideas for 'Bayesianism', 'Logic and Conversation' and 'The Roots of Reference'

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8. Modes of Existence / C. Powers and Dispositions / 3. Powers as Derived

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Dispositions are physical states of mechanism; when known, these replace the old disposition term [Quine]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / c. Truth-function conditionals

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Conditionals are truth-functional, but we must take care with misleading ones [Grice, by Edgington]

8948	The odd truth table for material conditionals is explained by conversational conventions [Grice, by Fisher]

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Conditionals might remain truth-functional, despite inappropriate conversational remarks [Edgington on Grice]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 8. Conditionals / f. Pragmatics of conditionals

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A person can be justified in believing a proposition, though it is unreasonable to actually say it [Grice, by Edgington]

14. Science / C. Induction / 6. Bayes's Theorem

2799	Bayes' theorem explains why very surprising predictions have a higher value as evidence [Horwich]

2798	Probability of H, given evidence E, is prob(H) x prob(E given H) / prob(E) [Horwich]